Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown – The Photographers’ Mentor Jeff Brown, born in Newcastle, England December 1970, first dipped his toe into entrepreneurship at the age of 14 while still at school, selling handmade fishing flies to fishing tackle shops to boost his pocket money. After leaving school at 16 he set up his first business, a mail-order fishing tackle enterprise. At 27 he joined the Royal Navy and began a career as a Military Photographer, but after nearly 10 years service he decided to leave the armed forces to set up his own photography company. Eighteen months later, Jeff had built a successful wedding photography partnership and a commercial photography company. Later going on to open a separate school photography business and a boudoir makeover company turning over 1,000 boudoir shoots per year. Jeff has shot over 750 weddings himself, but in 2015 turned his attention to developing an online photography business mentoring program, making it his mission to motivate and inspire photographers worldwide. Jeff has written a No.1 International Best-Selling book on LinkedIn for Photographers (The Photographers Missing Link-edIn) and also runs regular LinkedIn Lives for his 60k+ LinkedIn photographer followers. His second book The Ambitious Photographer’s Journal is a goal setting and success daily motivation journal purely for photographers, helping them beat procrastination and achieve their dreams. Jeff's third book Help!! My Photography Business Needs MORE Customers, is a complete online brand and website development book to help you turn more visitors into paying customers. And his latest book The Photographer's Gratitude & Mindset Journal is a great addition to follow on from his goal setting book, the Gratitude Journal is your 100 day diary to happiness and improved self-belief. He’s writes for several photography magazines and associations and is also a brand and marketing ambassador for: - The British Photography Awards - The Societies of Photographers - The current President of The British Institute of Professional Photography - The UK and US Brand Ambassador at Shutter Studio App - Ambassador for OM SYSTEM (Olympus Cameras) - Brand Ambassador for Studio Ninja and Evente App too When not mentoring or taking photographs he loves to be outdoors doing hiking challenges and climbing mountains. Jeff lives in the beautiful county of Northumberland in the far North East of England close to the Scottish Boarder. He has a 16 year old daughter Arya and a hyper active springer spaniel called Charlie.